Savannah Guthrie shared her reflections in an emotional Easter message, opening up about her struggle with faith during a painful time for her family. The broadcaster admitted to questioning her beliefs, as her mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing. Savannah’s words offer a heartbreaking glimpse into the continuous grief and emotional toll she has endured since her mother’s disappearance a few months ago.
Savannah Guthrie’s Easter Message
On April 5, Easter Sunday, Savannah shared a message for Good Shepherd New York‘s digital Easter gathering, sharing her reflections during a time that symbolizes hope and renewal for Christians around the world.
“Easter is happy. It is flowers and pastels and baby bunnies. It is sunshine and joy and hope. It is rebirth and second chances and new life and fresh starts,” Savannah said, emphasizing Christ’s resurrection.
However, the broadcaster confessed to feeling disappointed with God while still grappling with Nancy’s disappearance. “When life itself seems far harder than death. These moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment.
Nancy was believed to have been abducted from her home in Arizona in the early hours of February 1, and despite a massive search, there are still no clues to her whereabouts.
The News Anchor Talks About Her ‘Season Of Trial’
“In my own season of trial, I have wondered, I have questioned whether Jesus really ever experienced this particular wound that I feel. This grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion and answers withheld,” Savannah explained.
The broadcaster confessed that in her darkest moments, she felt “bitter” and wondered whether Jesus truly felt the pain she was feeling. Savannah then said that although Jesus suffered, he “at least knew his fate… There would be suffering, but then resurrection,” she added.
Savannah shared that it isn’t wrong to have questions and to think the way she does, adding that “wrestling with God” is an opportunity for revelation. In her reflections, Savannah realized that perhaps Jesus feels her agony, citing a passage in the Bible that Jesus said: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Savannah Guthrie Stays True To Her Faith Even In Grief
Despite facing one of the biggest challenges of her life, Savannah remains hopeful that the circumstances will change and that God will “redeem this pain.”
“He promises closeness to the brokenhearted. Somehow, miraculously, his loving and gentle presence that makes the meantime less mean,” she said, adding that perhaps her message is “too dark” for Easter. However, she believes that acknowledging the pain is part of celebrating resurrection.
“It is the darkness that makes this morning’s light so magnificent, so blindingly beautiful. It is brighter because it is so desperately needed. So I close my eyes this morning and I feel the sunshine… I celebrate too. I still believe. And so I say with conviction, Happy Easter,” she concluded.
The Broadcaster Is Returning To Work
Savannah has decided to return to work despite the ongoing search for her mother. Since Nancy’s disappearance, the broadcaster has been with her siblings in Arizona, doing what she can to help locate her. Savannah took a break from hosting “Today” and withdrew from covering the Winter Olympics to focus on the family emergency.
As previously reported by The Blast, she is returning to work and vowed not to “fall apart” for the sake of her two kids. “I will not let whoever did this take my children’s mother away,” she noted, adding that Nancy did the same for her and her siblings when her father passed away. “I saw her grief, I saw her world shatter — but I saw her get up, saw her love, saw her faith,” she said.
Savannah is expected to rejoin “Today” on April 6, following a two-month hiatus.
The Search For Nancy Guthrie
More than 60 days after her disappearance, the search for 84-year-old Nancy is still active. The FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Office are still reviewing thousands of tips and analyzing the clues left on the scene, including DNA evidence found in Nancy’s home.
Savannah pleaded with the public to share whatever information they have, no matter how insignificant they think it might be. “We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom’s case — please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations, or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance. No detail is too small. It may be the key,” she wrote on social media.